Back in 2015 Bill Gates wrote in his blog:
“The world is simply not prepared to deal with a disease—an especially virulent flu, for example—that infects large numbers of people very quickly. Of all the More...
Imagine if the teachers’ union started negotiations with your school board saying: “a strike is unthinkable.” That would be a signal to the board that they could impose any terms they wanted without worrying about the teachers’ reaction. Same thing would be true in reverse. A board could walk all More...
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2 things u need 2 know: I am v rich & v smart. I am richer & smarter than u.
I make or unmake rules; I do not follow.
In old days I would’ve sucked up 2 press 2 get them 2 cover what I said (& they would’ve screwed More...
“Diversity in schools and workplaces is crucial,” I remember being told, “because people from different ethnicities, places, economic situations and men and women have different points of view, different ways of looking at a problem.” My experience has been that diversity does bring all these ben More...
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You may have noticed that this week many news stories are being filed from Davos, Switzerland. That is because the World Economic Forum (WEF) is being held there this year – as it has been almost every year at More...
Software companies usually don’t borrow money; I blogged long ago about the loan my old company couldn’t get to buy a switchboard. But in 2011 Mary and I More...
Once NG Advantage LLC, our compressed natural gas trucking business, started to grow, we needed a lot more capital. Moving into a new region requires at least More...
Every economist worth her or his salt has a theory about why the great recession was followed by a nearly jobless recovery. Historically, lots of jobs are created in a surge when the economy is recovering; didn’t happen this time; many people left the work force and never came back.
I’m n More...
I'm a businessman; call me "TE". The search committee picked me to run the US government as a business. It's my first day on the job.
Of course we're going to start with an offsite to get the strategy right. Turns out we've got this place called Camp David with More...
"I'm hoping to get a job with a non-profit."
"I'll probably have to work in industry for a while, but then I plan to start a non-profit."
"I want to find a business with a triple bottom line."
"We're developing a video game that'll teach people not to be sexist."
"Once More...
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